JANET News
                Joint Academic Network (United Kingdom)

Telnet SUN.NSF.AC.UK or 128.86.8.7
login: janet
At the hostname: prompt type    uk.ac.janet.news
At the user prompt type    news

Welcome to the JANET News Facility

If you have any comments or suggestions about this
News facility please mail them to POSTMASTER@JANET.NEWS
They will then be forwarded to the appropriate person for comment

The following files of information are available :-

Filename  Last modified   Filename  Last modified   Filename  Last modified
ADDRESS    10 Jul 1991    CHEST      19 Apr 1991    CONTACTS   10 Dec 1991
CTISS      19 Apr 1991    DISTLIST   26 Nov 1991    DOCUMENT   05 Sep 1991
DODAG      26 Nov 1991    ETHER      10 Dec 1991    EUROKOM    12 Jul 1989
EYP        22 Nov 1990    FAULTS     27 Apr 1987    GATEWAYS   22 Sep 1991
HELP       18 Mar 1988    HUMBUL     11 Jul 1988    INDEX      29 Oct 1991
INFOSERV   25 Jun 1989    IXI        03 Dec 1991    JANET      23 May 1989
JIPS       29 Oct 1991    LIBRARY    04 Dec 1991    LINKDATA   02 Nov 1989
LINKSTAT   22 Feb 1989    LISTS      07 Nov 1991    MAILHINT   06 Nov 1990
MAILINDX   17 Aug 1988    MAILSYS    07 Nov 1991    NETWNEWS   18 Dec 1991
NISS       29 Jan 1991    NOC        17 Dec 1991    NRS        24 Dec 1991
NRSHELP    29 Sep 1989    NRSINFO    25 Mar 1988    OSITRANS   17 Feb 1988
PROJECTS   18 Feb 1988    RAINBOW    14 Mar 1990    SITES      05 Jul 1991
STARTER    22 Sep 1991    STATHELP   04 Apr 1989    STATS      19 Dec 1991
TRANSFER   23 Oct 1990    USERGRPS   13 Sep 1991    WORLDDC    19 Mar 1990
X500       07 Sep 1988

Please enter name of file to be examined, QUIT or STOP - index

Filename               Contents
--------               --------
ADDRESS                List of Janet addresses in date order.
CHEST                  Information about CHEST (Combined Higher
                       Education Software Team)
CONF                   Information on conferences/workshops
CONTACTS               Networking Contacts for each Janet site
                       (where known)
CTISS                  Information about CTISS (Computers in Teaching
                       Initiative Support Service)
DISTLIST               List of known distribution lists on JANET.
DOCUMENT               This file contains known document sources on JANET,
                       aswell as some documentation. The 'Beginners Guide
                       to Janet' can be found in this catalogue.
DODAG                  Technical Aspects of the Use of Internet Protocols
                       to Support UK Academic Community Networking
                       Interim Report of the JNT DoD Advisory Group
ETHER                  Information on Ether components.
EUROKOM                Mail access to Eurokom.
EYP                    Brief guide to BT's Electronic Yellow Pages.
FAULTS                 Procedure to be taken when reporting a fault
                       with JANET.
GATEWAYS               Information about the Network Executive supported
                       Gateways on JANET - EAN, EARN and PSS.
HELP                   HELP file.
HUMBUL                 Informatiom about how to access the Humanities
                       bulletin boards.
INFOSERV               Information about information sources.
IXI                    Information concerning the IXI network, connecting
                       the COSINE member countries.
JANET                  General information about JANET.
JIPS                   Information about the JANET IP Service
LIBRARY                Library News - directory of Library mail addresses
                       and information about the Janet Library User Group.
LINKDATA               This directory contains the data for each link.
LINKSTAT               This directory shows the link status for each site for
                       the specified period.
LISTS                  This contains the latest version of the 'lists
                       of lists' distributed by Neil Todd (GID).
MAILHINT               Instructions on how to file transfer version
                       7 of 'Hints for getting Mail through various
                       gateways to and from JANET' from this machine.
MAILINDX               This index contains a list of mail related documents
                       which may be of interest to the UK Academic Community.
                       It is maintained by Steve Kille (steve@ucl.c).
MAILSYS                Details of external mail systems.
NETWNEWS               Copies of Network News.
NISS                   Information about NISS (National Information
                       on Software and Services)
NOC                    Information about the Network Operation Centres
                       for JANET.
NRS                    This contains a list of the NRS names with their
                       DTE addresses and YBTS substrings for NIFTP, MAIL,
                       JTMP, X29 and TS29 access.
NRSHELP                Latest information about the status of the NRS.
NRSINFO                Information for the NRS Technical Administrators.
OSITRANS               The 'Transition to OSI Standards' report
PROJECTS               Information about IT programmes.
RAINBOW                Information about 'Rainbow' products.
SITES                  Information about Sites on JANET.
STARTER                Information about the JANET Starter Pack
                       for new sites.  Includes the ascii text for
                       the JANET Starter Card.
STATHELP               Information on the Janet PSE Statistics
STATS                  Statistics on the Janet Packet Switching Exchanges
TRANSFER               This tells the user how to transfer a file from
                       the JANET News machine.
USERGRPS               Copies of the minutes of the various Janet Regional
                       User Groups.
WORLDDC                Information on the World Data Centre C1
                       at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
X500                   Copy of letter to Computer Centre Directors
                       announcing the formation of a Directory Group.